... born in that State [Louisiana[ in 1809, a son of George J. Morgan and his wife, who was a daughter of Judge John Nicholson. ... T. N. Morgan was a gold-medal graduate of Yale College in the class of 1831, and ascended the bench as Associate Justice of the city of New Orleans at the age of twenty four, retraining that position until his early death, in his thirty-fifth year, in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1844. Judge Morgan took an active and leading part in reform work, was scrupulously strict with himself and of unbounded charity toward others. ...
